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Art is full of mysteries. And mysteries need solving. This is Van Gogh’s famous Self Portrait, a self-portrait with bandaged ear at the Courtauld Gallery in London. It’s famous because Van Gogh’s ear is so famous. Everyone knows the story of him cutting it off with a razor. And this picture painted soon after in 1889 commemorates that tragedy. The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak: Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, BBC 2020
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no-one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. Peter Medawar
Odo: Keep your ears open.
Quark: Are you kidding? That’s the Seventh Rule of Acquisition. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e20: In the Hands of the Prophets
You can’t enter the temple without wearing your ears. Star Trek: Voyager s3e5: False Profits, man on planet to Tom & Chakotay
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar not to praise him. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Brutus III ii
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. William Shakespeare, Hamlet I iii
For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece l38
I was all ear, and took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death. John Milton, Cornelius 560
Where more is meant than meets the ear. John Milton, Il Penseroso 120
I ain’t the same person I was when I bit that guy’s ear off. Mike Tyson
He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. William Makepeace Thackeray, Virginians XXXII
Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. Deuteronomy 15:17
And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear let him hear. Mark 4:9
One eare it heard; at the other out it went. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales IV i 435